Friday, October 9, 2020

Apartment Building, 50 Rúa de García Barbón, Vigo, Galicia (1942)


This fine-looking apartment building in downtown Vigo is at 50 Rúa de García Barbón. It has some classic Art Deco features and a polished black marble foundation stone signed by the architect, whose flambouyant signature looks like Francisco Pastore (?).






Photos taken on 2nd May, 2018.

Thursday, October 8, 2020

Rúa do Areal, 18, 36201 Vigo, Pontevedra, Spain (1928)

This building at 18 Rúa do Areal in Vigo has many beautiful Art Deco features. It is currently occupied by a variety of businesses, that include a rock bar, a restaurant, and a women's clothes shop. All I could find out about it was that it was built in 1928 and has the initials EP accompanying the date over the main door.








 All pictures taken on 2nd May, 2018.

Wednesday, October 7, 2020

A Coruña-San Cristovo Railway Station, 1935, A Coruña, Galicia, Spain


The A Coruña San Cristovo Railway Station was finished in 1935 and designed by architect Antonio Gascué Echeverría in a rationalist style. More information here:


It is a very pleasant terminus connecting A Coruña with central Spain.









Festina clocks are a fine feature of this station.




Photos taken on 3rd May, 2018.

Tuesday, October 6, 2020

Main Post Office, 1927-1931, Plaza del Alcalde Manuel Casas, A Coruña, Galicia, Spain

This beautiful main post office in A Coruna was featured on a 2002 Spanish postage stamp. Built between 1927 and 1931 on land reclaimed from the sea, the architects of this eye-catching gem were Luis Lozano Losilla and Joaquin Otamendi Machimbarrena. All components of this large building, which is easily the best-designed construction in this part of the city, seem to flow easily one into the next, they are so well-coordinated.

http://www.ateeme.net/angles/at70postco.htm

















 All photos taken on 3rd May, 2018.

Monday, October 5, 2020

Piscine Municipale/Piscine du Cours de la Republique, 1937, Le Havre, Normandy, France


This absolutely gorgeous frontage belonging to the public swimming pool in Le Havre is another miraculous survivor of WWII in this city that was mostly reduced to rubble by bombing and shelling. The pool's website is here in French:





 Photos taken 5th May, 2018.

Sunday, October 4, 2020

SNCF Gare du Havre, 1932, Le Havre, Normandy, France

Built in 1932 and designed by Henri Pacon, Le Havre's railway station is one of few buildings to survive the intense bombing of the city in World War II. This art deco station building replaced the original, of which all that remains is the roof over the platforms. The station hall, with its impressive roof and windows, and beautiful clock, still have the power to transport the onlooker back in time to days of greater attention to aesthetics and detail. It's a real treat just to walk around and sit in this station, what to speak of catch a train from here!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Havre_station











 All photos above taken on 5th May, 2018.